Florida's Orange County Is The Perfect Example Of How Not To Run A School System

The 188,735 students go to school in Florida's Orange
County, and their parents, have a reason to complain.

The school system earned the lowest grade, a D, on a Brooking's
Institute
study of big school systems around the county. The ideal
school system, according to the study, lets parents make an
informed choice between multiple good schools.

In Orange County, however, "students receive an assignment to a
school by the district based on their place of residence and
there is little or nothing the parents can do about it."
Furthermore Orange County schools evaluate students in different
ways, making it hard for parents to compare schools.

Other poorly-organized school systems include Cypress-Fairbanks
in Texas, Philadelphia and Dallas, all of which received a C-.

Although notoriously cutthroat, the New York City school system
received the highest grade, a B. The district received high marks
for the way it assigns work to students and the institute noted
New York did a good job at closing or restructuring unpopular
schools.